Abstract
Laser ablation of thin Ni films on fused silica by 0.5 ps KrF-excimer-laser pulses at 248 nm is reported. The onset of material removal from different film thicknesses (0.1, 0.3, 0.6 and 1.0 μm) was measured in a laser ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer by the amount of Ni atoms vs laser fluence. Significant amounts of metal atoms are already evaporated at laser fluences around 20 mJ/cm2, a threshold up to 100 times smaller compared to the one for 14 ns pulses. In contrast to ns laser pulses, the ablation threshold for 0.5 ps pulses is independent of the film thickness. These results reflect the importance of thermal diffusion in laser ablation of strongly absorbing and thermally good conducting materials and prove that for ablation with short pulses, energy loss to the bulk is minimized.
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Preuss, S., Matthias, E. & Stuke, M. Sub-picosecond UV-laser ablation of Ni films. Appl. Phys. A 59, 79–82 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00348424
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